What are the biggest factors that increase the time suck? Amount of money you are raising, inexperience?
Conversely, what consistently decreases the amount of time spent closing a round?
Conversely, what consistently decreases the amount of time spent closing a round?
By "obviously good" I mean obviously good to VCs, who as a rule tend to overlook the very best ideas because they seem crazy. So for example it may have slowed things down for Gabriel that he was working on a new search engine, because to many VCs it would seem crazy to try to compete with Google.
But crazy is good when combined with a good entrepreneur and some traction